Bernice Shoul

1920-1977

Biography

Bernice ("Bunny") Dorothy Shoul
was born in
Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1920. She studied at Radcliffe College
(Harvard). Her thesis supervisor was the prominent bourgeois theorist
of business cycles, Josef Schumpeter. She completed her doctoral thesis
on "The Marxian Theory of Capitalist Breakdown" in 1947. She was an
associate of Jean Van Heijenoort, one time secretary of Leon Trotsky.
She
subsequently taught at Brooklyn College, at the University of
Massachusetts and Bard College. She published a number of articles on
Marxist political economy. Other jobs included working for the
Government of Puerto Rico and the Gillette Company.

She died on March 17, 1977.

Works:

Background and History of the
American Movement Toward the Fourth International, 1941
American Labor in Politics: Preface to the Labor Party, 1943The Marxian Theory
of Capitalist Breakdown, 1947
Karl Marx and Say's Law,
1957
Review of Economics
and Social Reform by Abram L. Harris - 1959
Review of The
Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928 by Alexander
Erlich - 1961
Similarities in the Work of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, 1965
Karl Marx's Solutions to Some Theoretical Problems of Classical
Economics, 1967